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Papers and letters of French booksellers and bibliographers, 17th-19th century

Title: Papers and letters of French booksellers and bibliographers 17th-19th century

ArchivalResource: 3 shelfmarks

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1932 July 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1932 July 2.

Regarding Emery's poor health, his stay at the Bell in Sapperton, dinner with Jewson, a visit with Frederick Griggs, and his need to see Johnson regarding "the Aesop."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 20.4 cm.

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Johnson, John de Monins, 1882-1956. [Letter] 1936 June 6, Oxford [to] R.M. Dawkins, Oxford / John Johnson. - 1936.

Title: [Letter] 1936 June 6, Oxford [to] R.M. Dawkins, Oxford / John Johnson. - 1936.

Relates to proof of Dawkins' British Academy lecture and 25 printed copies.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 16 x 20 cm.

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Abraham Aaron Roback papers, 1909-1965.

Title: Abraham Aaron Roback papers

Papers of Abraham Aaron Roback (1890-1965), the Polish-born, American psychologist, philologist, folklorist, and educator.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1930 Nov. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1930 Nov. 23.

Expressing his amusement at the N.Y. Mirror tribute to him; joking about giving up book design for "ship-model making" once/if "the Odyssey and the Bible ever get finished"; describing the near-fate of "the Ancient mariner," having fallen "victim to the Press Gang"; indicating that he has "seen no one interesting for a long time now" but continues to lunch regularly with John Johnson from Oxford; describing Johnson's excellent printing exhibition; briefly discussing typefaces.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.) ; 23.6 cm.

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Papers of T.D.N. Besterman, 20th century

Title: Papers of T.D.N. Besterman 20th century

ArchivalResource: 8 shelfmarks

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Bella C. Landaur Writings and Reference Collection, ca. 1856-1972 (bulk 1926-1950)]

Title: Bella C. Landaur Writings and Reference Collection ca. 1856-1972 (bulk 1926-1950)]

Scrapbooks, indices, monographs, articles, and correspondence comprise an archive for the Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera at the New-York Historical Society as well as for other collections of Landauer's that she deposited at other institutions.

ArchivalResource: 12.27 Linear feet; (19 boxes)

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Howell, Alfred Corey, d. 1961,. Alfred Corey Howell collection of papers relating to Frederic Warde, 1924-1954.

Title: Alfred Corey Howell collection of papers relating to Frederic Warde, 1924-1954.

Correspondence of Alfred C. Howell with friends and colleagues of Frederic Warde. Collection includes typescript of substantial excerpts from Warde's letters to Isabella Grandin arranged topically and a bibliographyof books designed by Warde which Howell prepared with the assistance of Massey Trotter of the New York Public Library. Correspondents include but are not limited to: Beatrice Lamberton Becker; Herman Cohen; Alfred C. Cohn; P.J. Conkwright; Emily C. Connor; Geoffrey Cumberledge; Ralph Duenewald; Betty Dumaine; Philip Duschnes; Charles Ede; George Elderkin; CrosbyGaige; Isabella Grandin; Ruth Shepard Grannis; Anne Lyon Haight; William A. Jackson; Giovanni Mardersteig; John de Monins Johnson; Henry Watson Kent; William A. Kittredge; L.M. Knepple; George Leslie McKay; David McFarlane; George Macy; C.R. Morey; Stanley Morison; Donald Oenslager; Carl Pforzheimer; Carl Purlington Rollins; Rudolph Ruzicka; Datus Smith; Paul Standard; Clarence Stratton; Grace Stuart; Massey Trotter; Daniel Berkeley Updike; Henry Z. Walck and Alexander Woollcott. Also: photograph of. Stone marking the burial of Warde's ashes which was designed by Bruce Rogers.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.2 linear ft.)photographs 12 ; 13 x 20 cm.

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Bruce Rogers papers, 1902-1951.

Title: Bruce Rogers papers, 1902-1951.

Mainly incoming correspondence to Bruce Rogers; with a few outgoing letters, several items written and/or designed by Rogers, a small miscellany of associated material, and a group of photographs mostly of him.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)

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Warde, Frederic, 1894-1939. Papers, 1915-1938.

Title: Papers, 1915-1938.

Personal papers including: correspondence; book designs with many original drawings; notebooks; some financial records; photographs and negatives; printing specimens and clippings. The material focuses on Ward's work as a designer. Correspondents include but are not limited to: May Lamberton Becker, W.I. Burch; Cass Canfield; Edward Capps; Thomas Nast Fairbanks; Thomas Maitland Cleland; W.A. Dwiggins; Crosby Gaige; Fernand Giauque; Willi Harweth; Dard Hunter;Philip Hofer; Daniel Jacomet; John de Monins Johnson; Mitchell Kennerley; William Albion Kittredge; Paul Koch; Jan van Krimpen; Helman Lehmann-Haupt; Leroy Lathem; George Macy; Giovanni(Hans) Mardersteig; Frederick Melcher; Frances Meynell; Charles Rufus Morey, Stanley Morison, Bruce Rogers, Rudolph Ruzicka, TheodoreLeslie Shear, John C. Squire, Paul Standard, Daniel Berkeley Updike and Beatrice Warde. There is also correspondence with several firms, including but not limited to Ganymed Press (Berlin), Lorilleux & Cie. (France), Monotype Corporation and the Lanston Monotype Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes (14 linear ft.)albums 9.bookplates 3.clippings ca. 15.Christmas cards ca. 18.photographs ca. 68.negatives ca. 128.notebooks 4.menus 4.printing specimens ca. 200.page proofs ca. 8.

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Johnson, John B. The role of Oklahoma tax law in estate plannin

Title: The role of Oklahoma tax law in estate plannin [S.d.].

ArchivalResource: x, 62 p. ; 28 cm.

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1940 Aug. 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Danbury, to Henry Watson Kent, 1940 Aug. 16.

Discussing ongoing projects, including the Hesperides "Odyssey," "The Wind in the Willows," Shakespeare's poems, Carl Pforzheimer's catalogue, and his "chief concern at present ... the Hunter College inscription"; mentioning letters from Johnson at Oxford and Beatrice Warde, "both in good spirits"; enclosing a proof "for the Shakespeare"; asking if he heard that "an aunt of Frederic Warde's has turned up, in Wisconsin and claims the estate? That is, if there is any left."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20.2 cm.

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1932 July 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1932 July 13.

Discussing a recent letter from the Jacksons in Paris indicating that they won't be passing through England en route to California, and thus informing him of his plan to visit them in Paris for a week; mentioning that "Johnson seemed tired & older than a year ago" when he saw him recently.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 cm.

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1931 Apr. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1931 Apr. 24.

Complaining of his general state of mind and various mundane obstacles; philosophizing about printing; downplaying his social life and indicating that he only regularly sees [Stanley?] Morison and John Johnson, and rarely even sees Emery Walker or Wilfred Merton; discussing progress on projects and mentioning having seen [Daniel Berkeley?] Updike's "Prayer Book" at the British Museum; indicating their return to New York on "one of the slow (and cheap) American Merchant Line boats" in mid-July; enclosing for his critique a draft for a possible preface to the Odyssey.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (7 p.) ; 22.8 cm.

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Oxford University Press. Correspondence to Albert Croll Baugh, 1914-1938.

Title: Correspondence to Albert Croll Baugh, 1914-1938.

Items relate to various reproductions of Bodleian manuscripts (see Ms. Coll. 689, Folders 461-487), and also to 15th century donats in English (see Ms. Coll. 689, Folders 237-245) and the Ancren riwle (see Ms. Coll. 689, Folders 108-115). Notable correspondents include Horace Hart (press controller) and John Johnson (printer to the university).

ArchivalResource: 7 items (11 leaves)

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : New Fairfield, to Henry Watson Kent, 1931 Oct. 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Fairfield, to Henry Watson Kent, 1931 Oct. 4.

Forwarding "a brief account of the Oxford Press" written by John Johnson in a parish journal; mentioning having spent a recent afternoon with T.M. Cleland and dinner with the Rollins; imploring him to visit.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 20.4 cm.

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Colorado School of Mines. Athletic Association. [CSM Athletic Committee : minutes book] / Athletic Association, Colorado School of Mines, 1909-1913.

Title: [CSM Athletic Committee : minutes book] / Athletic Association, Colorado School of Mines, 1909-1913.

Holographic manuscript, in ink, containing the minutes of the Athletic Association of the Colorado School of Mines from Nov. 29, 1909 - Nov. 5, 1913.

ArchivalResource: 99 p. (in box) ; 25 cm.

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1930 Mar. 3.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Watson Kent, 1930 Mar. 3.

Complaining of the poor management of the A.I.G.A. 50-Book Shows and the sad state of "decorative bookmaking"; mentioning his hope to see Frederic Warde who is to be briefly in town; acknowledging receipt of his letter and a copy of Theocritus' Third Idyll, that he had printed with Kent and Bryson Burroughs in 1928; asking for a copy of the catalogue of the Arthur Davies Memorial Exhibition; describing lunch with Poet Laureate Robert Bridges and his wife and Humphrey Milford; mentioning regular lunches with Johnson, the Oxford printer; indicating that Roberts of Cambridge is coming to New York in a few weeks with some pages of a book in Centaur that he'll arrange for Kent to see; complaining of the slow progress on the Odyssey; mentioning that Adler sent him "Kittredge's compilation about [his] book designs" for the forthcoming Colophon, which he doesn't care for, and emphasizing his lack of involvement in the project.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm.

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Papers of Strickland Gibson, 1897-1948

Title: Papers of Strickland Gibson 1897-1948

ArchivalResource: 9 shelfmarks

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John Johnson Manuscripts, 16th-20th century

Title: John Johnson Manuscripts 16th-20th century

ArchivalResource: 82 shelfmarks

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